Not far from Wu Jingyan's shop, there is an ordinary house, which is the resettlement point of the Foreign Intelligence Agency in Qingcheng.
On the surface, this house is the residence of a Han merchant who was born in Bansheng, but it is actually the residence of Huang Hong.
Normally, the Han merchant would still take care of the courtyard. Among the people from the Foreign Intelligence Bureau on the grassland, only a few people knew that Huang Hong would live in this courtyard when he returned to Qingcheng.
when! when! when!
The wooden courtyard door was knocked from outside.
Not long after, a middle-aged man with dark skin came to the door of the courtyard.
The courtyard door was opened from the inside. The middle-aged man saw a man standing outside the door and hurriedly let him into the courtyard.
When the man outside the door came in, he stretched out his head and looked left and right outside the door. When he found that no one was interested, he closed the door again.
"Where's Huangtou?" asked the man who came to the yard.
The middle-aged man pointed back to the main room behind the yard and said, "Huangtou is in the room."
Upon hearing this, the man turned around and walked towards the main room.
The middle-aged man took two steps and followed the other party to the main room.
After entering the house, the two people came to the inner room again.
"Huangtou, Zhou You is here." The middle-aged man said to Huang Hong inside the room.
The man shouted: "Huangtou."
Huang Hong looked at Zhou You and said, "Have you investigated everything clearly?"
"After checking, the Hatan tribe indeed only has five to six hundred string control soldiers, and the ranch is a hundred miles north of the armored cavalry camp." Zhou You said.
"Where are the other tribes you asked to check?" Huang Hong asked again.
Zhou You said: "My subordinates have already asked people to inquire about information about several other tribes. There is only one Taiji tribe called Monte. The situation is similar to that of the Hatan tribe, but the pasture of this tribe is three hundred miles away from the armored cavalry camp."
"So the most suitable person to take action is the Hatan Department." Huang Hong said.
"It is true that the Hatan tribe is suitable for action, and my subordinates also found out a piece of news." Zhou You said, "Not long ago, the Hatan tribe was taken away by the Kankantada tribe with nearly a hundred string control soldiers. When they returned, they brought back ten Several corpses, including dozens of injured people, were said to have been encountered by horse bandits, but according to the herdsmen of their tribe, the dead seemed to have been killed by firearms."
"Oh?" Huang Hong became interested and said immediately, "So, this Hatan tribe may be the Mongolians who attacked our Tiger Flag convoy."
Zhou You said: "Unfortunately, the time was too short, and my subordinates were unable to verify the news and find conclusive evidence. However, according to my inference, it is probably the Hatan tribe who did it."
"On the grassland, the only people who can use a large number of firearms are our Tiger Flags." Huang Hong had a sneer on his lips.
Originally I thought it was Kankantada's tribe who took action, but now it seems that Kankantada did not use his own tribe's armored knights, but the string-controlling armored warriors of those small tribes.
Zhou You said: "Would you like to send the news about the Hatan Department to the Armored Cavalry Battalion?"
Huang Hong nodded, and then said: "You have worked hard these past two days. Today, you will stay in Qingcheng to rest for a night and recuperate. Tomorrow, you will go to the armored cavalry camp and you will personally correct them for the cavalry camp. Lead the way and we must completely wipe out this Hatan tribe."
"Yes." Zhou You nodded in agreement.
Huang Hong said again: "Okay, you go back and rest first!"
"My subordinates, please leave." Zhou You said and retreated from the room.
But the middle-aged man who entered the house with him did not follow him and remained in the house.
Huang Hong said to him: "Have you prepared anything to send to the armored cavalry battalion?"
"Send them all over," the middle-aged man said. "Zhang Yingzheng was worried that there would be robbery by horse bandits on the road, so he sent a large group of soldiers to escort them."
"Just send it over." Huang Hong said, "The battle is about to begin. The armored cavalry battalion must be equipped with full armor. This battle is very important for the armored cavalry battalion."
"Don't worry Huangtou, the things will be delivered to the armored cavalry camp in time." The middle-aged man assured.
After joining Huziqi, he realized how rich Huziqi was.
Weapons and armor are almost free of charge. They are all equipped for the soldiers and cavalry of Tiger Flag. Even ordinary cavalry have their own armor and weapons, and they are all made of fine iron.
He has been in Mongolia for more than ten years. As far as he knows, even a large Taiji like Su Nang does not have many personal guards with iron helmets and iron armor. Most of them are armored cavalry wearing leather armor, and some He couldn't even put on leather armor, so he only got a few pieces of leather and put them on randomly.
On the other hand, most of the soldiers in the tiger-shaped flag were wearing Ming Dynasty cotton armor, and both the armored cavalry and the cuirassiers were in iron armor.
The total number of cavalry was seven to eight hundred, and each one of them wore the same armor.
The Tiger Banner has so many cavalry wearing armor, which is more than the number of armored cavalry in any Taiji in Tumut.
But the Mongols grew up on horseback, and the number of cavalry was far higher than the number of cavalry in the Tiger Flag.
The Mongolian cavalry includes not only Taiji's bodyguards, but also semi-off-duty warriors, and even more herdsmen who can become string-controlling warriors by putting down their wooden forks and picking up bows and arrows.
Even though today's Tumut can no longer respond to every call of An Da Khan, and many tribes in right-wing Mongolia have long listened to edicts but not to propaganda, they can still easily gather tens of thousands of string-controlling soldiers.
Huang Hong thought for a moment and said: "You have done a good job with Kankantada, but you still have to keep an eye on Su Nang to see who else is close to Su Nang."
"I understand," the middle-aged man said, "I will go to Bansheng City again in the next half day to explore the opinions of the Han merchants in Bansheng City."
Huang Hong nodded.
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Armored cavalry camp.
Ma Yunjiu sat in the yurt, wiping the gun in his hand.
At this time, the curtain of the yurt was opened, and Tu La walked in from the outside.
"It's too cold today, and my face feels like being scratched with a knife." As he said that, he took a few steps to the stove in the yurt and put his hands on the stove mouth to warm himself.
Ma Yunjiu put down the gun in his hand and asked, "Have all the weapons that were just sent been fired?"
"The distribution has been carried out." Tu La turned his head to look at Ma Yunjiu and exclaimed, "This time, more than a dozen large trucks came. In addition to normal supplies, the remaining large trucks were filled with iron armor for us. I have never seen so many weapons prepared by the cavalry battalion."
"That's not much." Ma Yunjiu said, "Our Tiger Flag has its own iron farm, and the weapons used by the Tiger Flag are all made by the workshop in Lingqiu."
"Such a weapon would probably cost a lot of money." Tu La sighed.
Just the breastplates and sabers of their armored cavalry battalion cost a lot of silver. Now several carts of throwing weapons such as hatchets and spears were sent.
It can be said that the cavalry of the armored cavalry battalion are like moving silver. When he was a horse bandit, he never thought that one day he would have these things.
Even the retainers of the Ming Dynasty and the armored cavalry on the grassland would not be equipped with such complete iron armor. However, this is the norm in Tiger Banner, and ordinary cavalry can have their own iron armor. , which can be compared with adults at the level of lieutenant general in the border army.
